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Tag: cable

  • Cable boxes suck. Rogers sucks.

    Here’s something I don’t get… If I buy a cable box outright, with my own money, why is it that Rogers thinks they’re entitled to an opinion about what software options are enabled on it? For example, cable boxes have the ability to let you hide channels you don’t subscribe to. The manufacturers support this.…

  • Sticky snow-blower cable

    I’ve had growing problems the last couple years with one of the control cables on my Sears snowblower.  One of those cables like a bicycle brake cable, with the inextensible inner wire, and the incompressible outer sheath.  I’m sure there’s a technical name for cables like that, but I don’t know what it is.  (Update:…